M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My resolve, my anger, even my grief gave me confidence”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.”
“My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.”
“My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.”
Source: The Way to Communal Harmony
“My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most.”
“My response is that I love the church.”
“My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's being used to critique this sensible reinforcement of the public nature of the citizenship oath is, I think, unhelpful, and is actually inflaming the situation.”
“My response to the American PR team that criticized my protagonist's proclivities in the bedroom as non-feminist (just before they dropped my novel as "too controversial"): "Ellie, like many women, is incongruous. What she needs to pave a way in the outside world is not the same as what she needs behind closed doors. This is relatable, not alienating. I'm telling women it's ok to want what you want without apologizing. I'm telling them that getting (demanding!) exactly what you desire sexually is plenty feminist.”
Source: The Covert Buccaneer
“My response to the COVID-19 toilet paper shortage is to consume so much fiber that my poops come out as dense logs.”
“My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.”
“My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.”
“My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images.”
“My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.”
“My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.”
“My responsibility in the past, when I was sleeping outside every night, was just to survive. My responsibility now is to stay real, stay grounded, and just tell the truth.”
“My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.”
“My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.”
“My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role.”
“My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.”
“My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.”
“My responsibility is to get people into the offense.”
“My responsibility is to get the story right. I can't predict or be concerned with the consequences.”
“My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.”
“My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.”
“My responsibility is to truth and beauty.”
“My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.”
“My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.”
“My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.”
“My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.”
Source: My American Journey
“My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.”
“My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.”
“My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.”
Source: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography
“my restlessness is running wild again, and the peace always feels like you.”
“My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet.”
Source: Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage
“My results show you what I'm up to”
“My retirement plan was in place but Bernie Maidoff with my money.”
“My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.”
Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)
“My return to the theater in New York was so specific. I didn't want it to be about leveraging my exposure or my fame, so the first show I did in New York was an ensemble piece at an Off-Broadway theater, and I wanted to make sure that it was just about the play and about the experience.”
“My return was sweet, my home refound, but my thoughts were filled only with grief at having lost her, and my eyes gazed at the Moon, for ever beyond my reach, as I sought her. And I saw her. She was there where I had left her, lying on a beach directly over our heads, and she said nothing. She was the colour of the Moon; she held the harp at her side and moved one hand now and then in slow arpeggios. I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has become that flat, remote circle, I still look for her as soon as the first silver appears in the sky, and the more it waxes, the more clearly I imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them.”
Source: The Distance of the Moon
“My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!”
“My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.”
Source: Dracula
“My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.”
“My review of 2001, the year, is the same as my review of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It went on too long, it was hard to follow, and you could only enjoy it if you were really, really, *really* stoned.”
“My revision methods are chipping things away and moving them around and trying to get things right. I'm also open in my own writing to failure. I want to fail. I want to go to a place where I don't know what I'm doing, where maybe I'm lost. And in that uncertain space, I make decisions, and I know all those decisions are going to change everything else. And at a certain point, you just come to a place of rest. In revising, you reduce your options so that nothing is possible, and you just think, I can't change this anymore because I've already passed that decision point.”
“My revolution is born out of love for my people, not out of hatred for others.”
“My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.”
“My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.”